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Algeria: Retired General Ali Ghediri gets four years in prison for “undermining army morale”F

An Algiers court on Thursday sentenced a former presidential candidate and retired general to four years in prison for undermining army morale, the official APS news agency reported. Ali Ghediri had said he would stand in Algeria's April 2019 election against longtime...
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Tunisia: Trade union UGTT perplexed by president’s power grabF

Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union warned Friday against threats to the country's democracy after President Kais Saied implemented rule by decree and suspended parts of the constitution.  The UGTT, which played a key role in the country's move towards democracy after...
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Algeria’s first post-Bouteflika leader, interim President Abdelkader Bensalah, dies aged 79F

Veteran Algerian politician Abdelkader Bensalah, who served briefly as interim president after his mentor Abdelaziz Bouteflika was forced to resign in 2019, died Wednesday aged 79, the president's office said.  His death after what friends said was a long illness came...
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Algeria buries ex-president Bouteflika in muted funeralF

By Abdellah Cheballah with Francoise Kadri in Tunis: Algeria on Sunday buried Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the North African country's longest-serving president, at a cemetery for its independence heroes, but without the honours accorded to his predecessors.   Bouteflika...
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